"Cheryl Savageau is a rare poet: a commanding storyteller with a strong sense of irony and a gift for the haunting image, who manages the feat of giving voice to her two cultures—Abenacki Indian and French Canadian—in words that makes those worlds sing. She pages homage to family, nature, identity, but does not romanticize. By confronting the struggles of working people through a vivid language grounded in the sense, Savageau is writing real history, which we urgently need in this age of quincentenary-style history. She leads us back to the Home Country.—Martin Espada, author of Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover's Hands